About the Authors

Jianhui Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhui Tian, Cesar A. López

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Center for Biomolecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Cesar A. López

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianhui Tian, Cesar A. López

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Cynthia A. Derdeyn

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Morris S. Jones

Affiliation University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Abraham Pinter

Affiliation New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Bette Korber

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

S. Gnanakaran

gnana@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT. Performed the experiments: JT MSJ BK. Analyzed the data: JT CAL SG MSJ AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT. Wrote the paper: JT CAL CAD AP SG BK.